Well, the viewing was today. We left at 3, and got back home at 7. I am exhausted. These things are draining anyway, and I stood the whole time. My feet and lower back are really paying for it now. We ate out tonight *again*, because it was late when we got home and everyone was hungry.

As far as the actual viewing itself, it went alright. Both Cindy and Joey looked different, but then that's true at any viewing, I think. You could see on Cindy's forehead where she had been shot - it was to the right, almost at her temple. The makeup artists can only do so much, I guess. :( They had to put her wedding ring on her chest because it wouldn't fit on her finger. Her hands were obviously swollen. Joey looked way different too, mainly because he wasn't wearing a t-shirt and he didn't have a ballcap on. It's funny how a lot of times they dress people when they die so differently from how they actually dressed when they were alive. If they'd done what Joey would have wanted, they'd have put on an old pair of jeans, t-shirt and cap, and probably put a beer and pack of cigarettes in there with him. Haha! I can see him in my head looking just like that, with that smile he always had on his face, and that slow kind of laugh. He had a slow talk too, really laid back and country. He was such a good guy.

Mackenzie followed Seana all over and mothered her. She just naturally does that to smaller kids. She did take Seana in to see Cindy and Joey for the first time. Seana had refused all day. They played for a while and then Kenzie asked her if she wanted to go in (this is what Kenzie told me). Seana asked her if they were just bones, and she told her no, that they had skin. So they held hands and went in and just looked for a while. They both touched Cindy and Joey, I guess they had to see if it was okay. Mackenzie told me later that they were freezing cold. I was glad Kenzie was there for Seana liked that - what a burden that poor little girl has in that memory. I was kind of irked by this other little girl. She was standing there while Kenzie and Seana were looking at Cindy, and she was talking about how Cindy was shot in the head and stuff. Then she started trying to say the name of the guy that did it, and Seana said "Don't talk about that!" Then the little girl started saying "Who told you to run, Seana? Who told you to run?" About that time Seana turned away to walk out, and I told Kenzie to go with her. When we all went out, Seana and Kenzie turned around and went back in without that other little girl.

The funeral is tomorrow, 10 AM.